Not sure this is relevant but there is also FMDB, a Freebase application for
browsing Freebase movie data.
See for instance:
http://jameshome.com/freebase/fmdb/index.html?movie=%2Fguid%2F9202a8c04000641f80000000000583d6
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I'd just like to point out the following:
> http://www.omdb.org/movie
> which has a better licensing, it seems:
> http://www.omdb.org/content/Copyright
>
> Perhaps worth getting in touch with them to see if they can provide some
> RDF?
>
>
> >
> > AFAIK Jen Golbeck used imdb data for Filmtrust [1] (not this is not
> > published as linked data unfortunately, and I'm not sure what the
> status
> > is), but in general I think people have given the imdb data a fairly
> > wide berth in the LOD community precisely due to the licensing issues.
> I
> > certainly looked into it WRT Revyu, but instead opted to use film data
> > from Dbpedia as this is more in spirit with the efforts of the
> > community. Until the day comes when imdb publishes linkable (and
> linked)
> > data then I'd argue in favour of giving the link-cred to Dbpedia.
> >
> > Last summer at KMi Peter Coetzee produced a pretty accurate list of all
> > the films in Dbpedia, excluding the items classified as films that
> > actually aren't. This produced a set of ~12,000 items (down from the
> > 30,000 actually classified as films - sorry Georgi ;) I'd be very happy
> > to dig this data set out of storage and share it with the community if
> > people would be interested to see it.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > in other words, given the imdb licensing realities, are imdb
> > > URIs useful as identifiers even if we can't use the related
> > > data? are URIs useful in LOD on their own?
> > </snip>
> >
> > In summary I think we should pour the effort into Dbpedia (and related
> > projects already within the LD space), on the basis that imdb can join
> > the party later if they wish.
> >
> > Re using URI's based on imdb identifiers, I think it does no harm to
> add
> > pointers to imdb pages (e.g. <film-on-dbpedia> foaf:page
> > <page-on-imdb>), but one shouldn't mint URIs in someone else namespace
> > (i.e. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/#thing> is out). However,
> > there's nothing to stop you minting identifiers such as
> > <http://mydomain.eg/imdb/title/tt0088846>.
>
>
> Yes, I would either mint new URIs, which can later sameAs to IMDB
> URIs, or use a foaf:page to link to the IMDB page. Anyway, both of
> them would be useful!
>
> Cheers!
> y
>
>